a very Rare Item from The "BITTER ROOT INN"
Anything from this Frank Lloyd Wright building is harder to find than Midway Gardens objects.


 This is a very rare DISH  only A COUPLE in existence.

. SIGNED BY The maker is O.P.Co. Syracuse China Dade code stamped in the back of the china is 1912. It has a top logo. This piece came from the dinning room from The Bitter Root Inn. MEASURES 8 1/2 X 5 INCH WIDE.

The Inn was built for use of people to stay when they were looking to buy land for apple orchards and settle there (thus the Apple Logo) on the china . The boom was short lived. Blight destroyed much of the valley’s crop in 1913. Law suits plagued the company. They filed for bankruptcy in 1916. It ceased as an inn, but was used as a dance hall and roadhouse. Finally on July 26, 1924, fire destroyed the Bitter Root Inn.
There were many classic Prairie styled Wright details in the Bitter Root Inn, a paradise in the wilderness. The basic material was wood, using board and batten siding and shingles for the roof. Strong horizontal lines, low-pitched roof, broad overhanging eaves, horizontal rows of leaded or mullion divided glass windows and glass doors, two prominent centrally located fireplaces and chimneys, balconies and porches. The Dining and Reception Rooms were designed with large semicircular fireplaces. There are built-in piers or columns that could have been designed for planters or large vases like many of his buildings at that time. The drawings for the un built Office in Bitter Root did include large vases. The Inn was 126 feet long and two stories tall. The first floor included a Dining Room on the left, an office in the center, a Reception Room on the right, and a large Porch on either end. An open gallery ran the length of the front of the building. The second floor included 20 Bedrooms, Men’s and Women’s Baths, and a Balcony that runs along the front and one on either end. Running water and electricity included.